Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
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And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:
Judges
History / SamuelThou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
Numbers
Law / MosesKnowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterHe shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Psalms
PoetryHe is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaBut pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
2 Kings
HistoryO send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Psalms
PoetryDig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielLORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
Acts
History / LukePharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
Genesis
LawAlso unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
Ezra
History / EzraThen said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThese are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.
Numbers
LawAnd Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWhose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: